Polyphase multipolar winding



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POLYPHASE MULTIPOLAR WINDING Filed Jan. 29,1944

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/4 ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 24, 1946 UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE 13 Claims.

My invention relates to windings, and windingmethods analysis, for the slotted magnetizable cores of multipolar electrical apparatus; and

it has particular relation to polyphas'e windings, v

and particularly to fractionaleslot wave-windings, although certain broad aspects of my invention are not so limited. By a fractional-slot winding, I mean a winding Having a number of slots, q, per phase per pole, which is a fraction q=R/T when reduced to its lowest terms; and in contra-distinction from the prior art, I frequently have in mind a fraction, q, inwhich the least denominator, T, is greater than 2, although my invention, in some of its broadest aspects, may not be limited to this condition.

While my invention is particularly concerned with modified wave-windings, some features of it are useful in the design and analysis of lapwiudings. Wave-windings, or modiiied wave- Windings, are frequently very desirable, because of their fewer end-connections, as distinguished from lap-windings which have conneetions between each of the successive coils; but wavewindings, or' modified wave-windings, are not generally adaptable to a wide choice in the number of slots which must beused, thus frequently necessitating a special slotted core, or a special die, for each diiierent combination of pole and phaseenumbers.

Heretofore, in laying out exactly balanced, modified wave-windings for alternating-current machines, the total number of slots of the machine has been an integral multiple of the number of phases times the number of pairs of poles, so that the same integral number of slots lay under each pair of poles. The slots under one pair of poles thus become a repeatable group, or if there is an even number of such slots', the slots-lying under a single polebecom'e a repeatable group, these repeatable groups being repeated, around the core of the machine, to make up the entire circumference. In such repeatable groups, the magnetic fluxes, and the induced voltages, of correspondingly positioned coil-sides in all of the groups have the same phases, disregarding 180 phase-shifts which' can be taken care of by a reversal of connections.

In polyphase windings, having, say, m phases, it has been possible 'to produce balanced windings by assigning one mth of the coil sides in each repeatable group to each phase; by a balanced winding meaning a winding in which each phase has the same total E. M. F. induced therein, S60/m electrical degrees out of phase with each other. The corresponding phases of the several repeatable groups, since their voltages were all equal and in phase with cach other, could be connected in parallel, or in series, or in seriesparallel, as desired.

In the prior-artI balanced wave-windings, however, the number of slots per phase per pole had to be an integer, in case one-pole repeatable groups were utilized, or an integer plus a half, in case two-pole repeatable groups were utilized. This necessitated the choice of a slot-number s equal to p or p/2 times the number of slots in each repeatable group, where p is the number of poles, or, for the entire circumference, a total number of slots, s, which is a multiple of pm or 11m/2.

The design or laying-out of windings for dynamo-electric machines, either lap-windings, true wave-windings, or modied wave-windings, has been, in many cases, particularly for fractional-slot windings, a haphazard, rule-oi-thumb, experience-dictated, guess method. These previous designs have frequently necessitated the use of many pages of charts, and complicated winding-rules, and numerous exceptions and corrections therefor. These previous methods have frequently resulted in windings which are not exactly balanced, although some slightly unbalanced windings have previously been considered to be nearly enough balanced for purposes which have heretofore been considered suiliciently practical. The previously known Winding-methods have also frequently resulted in the use of socalled "dead conductors or coil-sides, or slotspaces which are not utilized by the winding.

It is an object of my invention to provide a new method for expeditiously and accurately laying out any windings, whether new or old, lap or wave, integral-slot or fractional-slot windings, and for quickly and mathematically accurately analyzing the performance of these windings.

It is a further object of my invention to produce new, heretofore impossible, fractional-slot, modified wave-windings, which design-engineers have not previously known how to lay out, in which the least denominator of the fraction is greater than 2, referring to the fraction representing the number of slots per phase per pole.

A more speciiic object of my invention is to design a balanced polyphase Winding Which is based upon a slot-star, which shows the phase relations of the voltages induced in conductors lying in each one of the mR slots of each repeatable group of T poles, (assuming sinusoidal linx-distribution), where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the fraction representing the number of slots per phase per pole, reduced to its lowest terms. In accordance with this aspect of my invention, I show how to quickly calculate the slot-numbers of the successive vectors of the slot-star, and I utilize these successive vectors, in the order in which they appear in the slot-star, in laying out the winding in the correspondingly numbered slots, in a manner which will be described in detail.

With the foregoing and other objects in View,

`my invention consists in the machines, apparatus,

windings, combinations and methods hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic longitudinal sectional view of the upper half of a wound-rotor induction-motor embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper half of a synchronous generator embodying my invention,

Fig, 3 is a slot-star vector-diagram to accoml pany Figs. 4 and 5,

Fig. 4 is a developed view of a ten-pole, balanced, three-phase lap-winding having the slotstar of Fig. 3,

Fig. 5 is a similar view of a balanced threephase wave-winding for the same machine,

Fig. 6 is a slot-star Vector-diagram to accompany Figs. '7, 8, 9 and 10,

Fig. 7 is a developed view of a four-pole, balanced, three-phase wave-winding having the slotstar of Fig. 6,

Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are similar views of other balanced three-phase wave-windings for the same machine,

Fig. 11 is a slot-star vector-diagram to accom- I pany Fig. 12,

Fig. 12 is a developed View of a ten-pole, balanced, three-phase wave-winding having the slotstar of Fig. 11,

Fig. 13 is a slot-star vector-diagram to accompany Fig. 14, and

Fig. 14 is a developed view of a ten-pole, balanced, three-phase wave-winding having the slotstar of Fig. 13.

My invention is applicable to balanced polyphase windings for alternating-'current machines. such as the wound-rotor induction-motor 5S) of Fig. 1, or the synchronous generator 5| of Fig. 2.

The induction-motor 50 of Fig. 1 has a threephase primary or stator-winding 52 on a slotted magnetizable stator-core 53, and a three-phase secondary or rotor-winding 54 on a slotted magnetizable rotor-core 55, either or both of which may be designed in accordance with my invention. The three-phase terminals of the stator-winding 5i. are the line-conductors 56 of the machine. The three-phase terminals of the rotor-winding 5l! are the slip-rings 51 of the machine.

The synchronous generator 5| of Fig. 2 has a three-phase generating or stator-winding 58 on a slotted magnetizable stator-core 59, and a salientpole exciting or rotor-member 60, having a plurality of direct-current exciting-coils 6| to which exciting current is supplied by the two slip-rings 62 of the machine. The three-phase statorwinding 5S may be designed in accordance with my invention. Its terminals are the three lineconductors 63 of the machine.

In designing and analyzing my windings, I utilize a vector-diagram, designated a slot-star, which shows the relative phases between the magnetic fluxes or the induced voltages V in the several conductors or slot-sides lying in the different slots of the machine, .assuming a sinusoidal flux-distribution. In the slot-star, all of the veetors are plotted in two quadrants, or electrical degrees, being reversed, when necessary, to bring this about; the object being to show the relative phases. Reversals can be taken care of by reversals of the electrical winding-connections.

In case the number of vectors V in the slot-star should be less than the total number of slots in which the coil-sides of the winding are placed, it will always be true that the total slot-number will be an exact multiple of the number of slotstar vectors. Thus, the number of slots corresponding to the slot-star vectors constitute a repeatable group, so that the winding, as a whole, may be divided into a number of repeatable groups of coils, in which correspondingly positioned coil-sides of all of these repeatable groups will have induced voltages represented by the same correspondingly numbered slot-star vectors, so that the entire winding may be analyzed by means of repeatable groups having identical slotstars.

In analyzing and discussing windings, I shall make use of certain symbols which may conveniently be tabulated as follows: pznumber of poles. s--number of slots. m=number of phases.

qzrl=l=number of slots per phase per pole,

reduced to its lowest terms.

T=number of poles in one repeatable group of winding-coils.

R=number of slots per phase, in each repeatable group of T poles.

mR--number of voltage-Vectors in the 180 slotstar of the phase-vectors of each repeatable group.

O -lR vector-to-vector angle in the slot-star.

, in electrical degrees=slot pitch. u=number of slot-pitches qss between the slots corresponding to any two successive vectors Vx and V x u) of the slot-star. lcznearest integral approximating the number of pole-pitches between the slots corresponding to two adjacent vectors of the slot-star. yi=back pitch, expressed in number of slots. yz=front pitch or front-end throw of the winding. y=yi+y2=double throw or total pitch between successive coils. z=number of vector-to-vector angles qbv of the slot-star, by which the voltage-vector of the rst coil-side of one coil leads or lags the voltage-vector of the first coil-side of the preceding coil of a wave-winding.

In any m-phase winding, the fraction q=R/ T, expressing the number of slots per phase per pole, when reduced to its lowest terms, determines the number of slots, mR, in each repeatable group of the winding, and hence the number of vectors in the 180 slot-star which shows the relative phases of the voltages induced in the several conductors lying in the slots, assuming sinusoidal flux-distribution. This fraction, q=R/T, also determines the number of poles, T, spanned by one repeatable group of the winding.

In accordance with my invention, it is a very simple matter for the design-engineer to lay out any balanced polyphase winding, and also to produce new balanced polyphase windings never before achieved, avoiding most of the labor, and all of the guesswork, of previous design-methods.

Every polyphase winding which is capable of fore,

l .limits of 1 and mR, by adding or subtracting mR whenever necessary to keep within these limits.

It is to be noted that the total number of poles, p, may be equal to T, or any multiple of T, if T is an even number; otherwise p must be an even multiple of T. In a three-phase winding, where m23, T must be prime to 3; and this limitation rules out windings having a pole-number :6, 12, 18, or other multiple of 3, unless, of course, such pole-numbers are obtained with T=1, or T=2. The condition, T=1, represents the case of an integral-slot or non-fractional-slo-t winding, which is really only a special case of a fractional-slot winding; and my formulas apply, with equal readiness, of course, to this case. The condition, T12, represents a winding in which the number of slots per phase per pole is an integer plus 1/2, and, of course, my formulas are applicable.

Some such windings, having T=1 or T=2, have been known before, both' in wave and lapwindings, and some fractional-slot lap-windings, having T greater than 2, have been known be- Some of these previously known windings have been perfectly balanced, while others have not been balanced, and some have involved dead conductors. In the Italian translation of the third volume of my Electrical Machines, published in 1937 under the name Liwschitz- Garik, I gave a formula for the slot-difference u, and showed h'ow to lay out a balanced lapwinding by using this difference; but I was not able, at that time, to lay out a balanced fraction al-slot wave-winding. So far as I know none of these previously known wave-windings has been laid out, or analyzed, by my sure slot-star method, with the characteristic slot-difierence u of the slot-star calculated beforehand, by a formula such as my Formula 1.

When the pole-pitch number, lc, is 2, or other l even number, T must be odd, in order to be prime to k, and hence the number of poles p must be 2T, or a multiple thereof. In a S-ph'ase, fractional-slot winding of this type, lc being even,

the lowest possible pole-number is 21:10, corconsecutive vectors, or 180/m electrical degrees, y

are chosen for each phase, thereby producing a winding having th'e highest possible distributionfactor.

In laying out a lap-winding according to this aspect of my invention, I utilize the order of the numbers, in the slot-star, to determine in which slots to place the rst coil-sides, or upper conductors (in a double-layer winding), of each phase of the winding. Thus, in a lil-pole, 24-slot, 3-phase lap-winding, having q=s/pm=R/T=4/5, Equation 1 shows that Ic=2 and u=5, measured forwardly, or added. The first R slot-star vectors, for phase-A, would be numbered, respectively, I, 6, ll, I6; the second R vectors, for phase-B, would be numbered 2l, 2, 1, I2; and the third R vectors, for phase-C, would be numbered Il, 22, 3, 8. Thus, the top-layer conductors for phase-A would be in slots I, 6, I l and I6; those of phase-B in 2l, 2, 'l and l2; and those of phase-C in Il, 22,3 and 8.

For phase-B, it is necessary to reverse the polarity, or to addimR=zfzl2 to the slot-numbers (T being odd), in order to get a phase-difference between the phases, instead of the 60 phase-difference between the three groups of R=4 vectors of the slot-star. Because of the symmetry of the winding, we can simply add onethird of 2'4, or 8, to the slot-numbers for phase-A, obtaining `the numbers 9, 14, 19 and 24 for the top-layer conductors of phase-B. The top-layer conducto-rs of phase-C are the last four vectornumbers of the slot-star of Fig. 3, these numbers being l1, 22, 3 and 8, which are displaced by twothirds of 24, or 16 slots, from the respective numbers for phase-A.

Because phases B and C are thus always the same as phase-A, only displaced by the proper number of slots, they are not, in general, shown in detail in the various winding-diagrams of the drawing.

This fully determines the layout of the winding. The vector-star is shown in Fig. 3, and phase-A of a ten-pole lap-winding corresponding thereto is shown in Fig. 4, with the terminalpositions of phases B and C indicated. The second coil-sides, or lower-layer conductors, of the respective coils could be displaced 2 slot-pitches from the first coil-sides, for a maximum possible chord-factor of 2/2.4, or .833; or, as shown in Ilig. 4, the coil-throw could be 3 slit-pitches, for a chord-factor of 1-[ 3-2.4) /2.4l, or .'75,

It will be noted that every slot of a phasegroup, corresponding to R consecutive vectors of the slot-star, such as the vectors V1, Vs, Vn and V16 of phase-A, must be occupied by coil-sides of the phase-Awinding; but the slots can be taken in any order.

In laying out a wave-winding according to one aspect of my invention, I place the beginnings, or first coil-sides, of two successive coils in slots which are spaced by approximately two poles (or other even number of poles, if longer pitches are to be tolerated), plus or minus a slight creepage-distance which I determine by the corresponding vectors of the slot-star, taken in the order in which they appear in the slot-star, insofar as such order is conveniently possible, thus minimizing the need for end-connectors. The return-conductors, or second coil-sides ofV the coils, may be chosen for any intermediate slots, spaced by y1 slots from the first coil-sides of the respective coils, according to the chording desired.

The design-engineer, in laying out a wavewinding in accordance with this phase of my invention, first determines the number of phases m (usually 3) and the number of poles p, of his winding. He then selects, usually out of available punched cores, or available dies for making them, the slot-number s, or the repeatable group-number mR=sT/i3, which will make lc either 1 or 2, in either one of the interchangeable Equations 1 or la, according to the type of winding desired, or' according to the available cores or dies. The integer 7c may be larger than 2, if a longer double-throw, y, corresponding to 4 or 6 poles, is to be tolerated, as would be the case if u were unity,

or other Very small number; but in the following explanations, for the sake of simplicity, a double-throw, y, of approximately 2 poles will usually. be assumed.

According to my invention, therefore, with the double-throw, y, equal to approximately 2 poles, y will be exactly equal to either u or 2u, according as k is equal to 2 or 1, respectively. In the 9 general case, however, y may be equal to any number of us, or

with the limitation that 2k must always be an even number, usually 2, corresponding to a double-throw y:2u slots, approximating 21c:2 polepitches, so that zkmR/T, or 2168/10, represents the fractional number of slots in exactly two poles, or 360 electrical degrees, or in a plurality of pairs of poles if longer-pitch windings are to be considered, in which case 21 will be a multiple olf 2.

Since the integer 2 represents the number of slot-groups u between the beginnings, or the rst coil-sides, of successive coils of the winding, and since u represents an integral number of slot-pitches between coil-sides in which the induced E. M. F.s are iev out of phase, if 1c is even, or between coil-sides in which the induced E. M. F.s are (180 Iv) out of phase, if 1c is odd, it follows, irom Equation 2, that 2 represents the number of vector-to-vector angles, ov, of the slotstar, by which the voltage-vector` of the rst coilside of one coil leads or lags the voltage-vector of the rst coil-side of the preceding coil of the winding, the angle being additive, if the plus sign is used in Equation 1 or la, and being subtractive if the minus sign is used.

I shall illustrate the design of wave-windings in accordance with my invention, by considering the case of a wave-winding in which k2 is 2, which is to say that the double throw, y, in Equation 2, is equal to two pole-pitches, ZmR/T, plus or minus a small creepage-angle. I shall also confine my illustration of wave-windings to those novel fractional-slot wave-windings in which T is greater than 2, although my invention is also useful in laying out, and analyzing, other wavewindings. There are two types of winding of this class; first the case in which 2:1 and 16:2; and second the case in which 2:2 and 16:1.

When 2:1, in Equation 2, in a wave-winding, 1c will thus have to be equal to 2 (or other even number), in Equation 1; and hence the total pitch, y, or the number of slots between the beginnings of successive coils of the wave-winding, will be exactly the same as the slot-difference, u, or number of slots between those coil-sides which have the least phase-displacement 4W between them, as represented by successive vectors of the slot-star. In this case, the slot-numbers which are assigned to any two consecutive vectors, VX and Vxiu, of the slot-star are also in general, or as far as possible, the slot-numbers of the first coil-sides of any two consecutive coils of the winding, thus minimizing the required number of group-connections at the ends. At any rate, the slot-difference, a, of the slot-star xes the total pitch, y, of the winding.

The mR vectors of the slot-star are subdivided into m groups of R vectors each, one for each of the m phases; and each phase-winding of that repeatable group must have coils having one coilside, or the same number of coil-sides, in each of the slots having positions numbered correspondingly to the aforesaid R vectors of the slotstar.

Thus, in a balanced, lil-pole, .2d-slot, 3 phase wave-winding, having q:s/pm:R/T:i/5, Equation 1 shows that c:2, and u:5, measured forwardly, or added. The first R slot-star vectors, for phase-A, would be numbered, respectively, I, 6, II, I; the second R vectors, for phase-B, would be numbered 2i, 2, '1, I" and the third R vectors, for phase-C, would be numbered I'I, 22, 3, 8. Thus, the top-layer conductors for the successive coils of phase-A would be in slots numbered I, 6, II and I6. The slot-star of such a balanced, fractional-slot wave-winding is the same as the one shown in Fig. 3; a development of the winding is shown in Fig. 5.

A winding, such as the fractional-slot wavewinding just described, as exemplified in Fig. 5, may be applied, for example, to the rotor-core 55 ci a wound-rotor induction-motor 5u, such as is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1. Since the illustrated winding, as shown in Fig. 5, is assumed to be designed for the secondary winding 5d of an induction-motor 5U, it is usually desirable, other considerations permitting, for it to have the highest chording-factor possible, so that I have chosen a rear-end pitch of 111:2, rather than 241:3, so as to obtain a chord-factor of .833 rather than .'15, I thus utilize the group of vector-numbers 3, 8, I3 and I 8, for the successive return-conductors of the phase-A coils, these Vector-numbers being obtained by adding the back pitch, 11:2, to each of the numbers I, 6, Il and I6 of the slots occupied by the rst coilsides of the respective coils. Phase-A of the winding is shown in its entirety in Fig. 5.

When 2:2 and 16:1, however, a somewhat different type of wave-winding results. Here, the order of succession of the slot-numbers for the rst coil-sides of successive coils oi each phase of the winding is determined by every alternate vector of the group of R slot-star vectors which are assigned to that phase. This is so, because, in this case, the slot-star vectors, according to Equation 1, represent a condition in which the slots corresponding to succeeding vectors are under alternately north and south poles, with approximately one pole-pitch, or kmR/T slots, between them, 1c being equal to 1.

Thus, in a 4-pole, 15-slot, S-phase wave-winding, having q:s/pm:R/T:5/e, Equation 1 shows that 1c:1, and u:4, which is measured forwardly, or added t0 the preceding vector-star number, because the plus sign is utilized in the formula expressed by Equation 1. rIhe slot-star vectors will thus have the following numbers, in order: for phase-A, I, 5, 9, I3 and 2; for phase-B, 6, I0, It, 3 and I; and for phase-C, II, I5, Il, t and I 2. Such a slot-star is shown in Fig. 6.

A wave-winding corresponding to this slotstar, with successive vectors representing slots under poles of opposite polarities, will have to have a total pitch, y:2a:8, such as from slot I to slot 9.

If the winding just mentioned has its back and front pitches yi:y2:u :4, then the second coilsides of the respective successive coils will lie in the slots corresponding to the slot-star vectors which were skipped by the first coil-sides, and these second coil-sides may be regarded as satisfying the requirement for a phase-A windinggroup having one coil-side in each of the slots numbered I, 5, 9, I3 and 2, for example. Thus, starting at the front, as shown in Fig. '1, the

phase-A winding-group of such a (double-layer)l wave-winding may be regarded as including the top conductor of slot I, the bottom conductor of slot 5, top 9, bottom I3, and top 2, to the rear of the core, where connection is made to the star-point phase-A terminal At, as shown in Fig. 7. A second phase-A winding group, connected in parallel with the first (if the winding is a double-layer winding, as shown), may start at A at the front, and may successively include 'll the bottom conductor of slot 2, top I3, bottom 9, top 5. and bottom I, to a phase-A group-connector 13 which is connected to the phase-A starpoint terminal A* at the rear. The Winding is shown in Fig. 7. Here, the chording-factor is unity.

Alternatively, the second winding-group of each phase, such as phase-A, instead of having its coil-sides occupying the same live slots as the rst phase-A winding-group, can occupy slots corresponding to a displaced group of ve consecutive vectors in the slot-star, in which case the second phase-A winding-group could not be connected in parallel with the iirst phase-A winding-group, but would have to be in series with it, as shown in Fig. 8. This introduces a chording-iactor according to the phase-displacement between the two phase-A winding-groups.

Thus, in Fig. 8, the rst phase-A windinggroup is the same as in Fig. 7, but its end is joined, at the rear of the core, to a group-connector IIIA, which connects to the second phase-A winding-group, which may be considered as starting at the rear, and including, in order, the top conductor of slot I3, bottom 9, top 5, bottom I, and top I2, where a star-point connection is made at A*, at the front of the core, as shown in Fig. 8. The phase-displacement between the two winding-groups is one vector-to-vector angle rpv of the slot-star, or tiza slots. Since one polepitch is mR/T=15/4 slots, a l-slot displacement gives a chord factor of The winding is shown in Fig. 8.

It is to be understood, of course, that the two winding-groups of each phase could have been connected in series in Fig. 7, instead of in parallel, by using the same system shown in Fig. 8. A

In other words, any phase-displacement could be used, in Fig. 8, either zero, or any other available phase-displacement, depending upon the chording desired.

A still further alternative winding-connection fconductors, of the slots in question. Thus, the

top coil-sides of the successive coils of phase-A may be in slots I, 5, 9, I3 and 2, in the order named. The bottom coil-sides of each coil may be displaced, by any pitch y1, from the top-coil side of that coil.

Thus, in Fig. 9, in back pitch y1 is 4, and the bottom coil-sides lie respectively in slots 5, I3, 6, 9 and 2, which are displaced by an angle 0V, or u=4 slots, from the group of top coil-sides which are in slots I, 9, 2, 5 and I3, taking alternate Vectors of the slot-star, in order to obtain a double throw, y, approximating two poles. This gives a chord-factor of arogare phase-A winding can be opened at any desired point, to obtain the beginning and the ending of that winding-group. Bothof these variations are illustrated in Fig. 10, where a rear-end pitch of 111:3 is utilized, and the winding is opened between the rst three coils and the last two coils, in place of the group-connector 1I of Fig. 9. Thus, in Fig. 10, the phase-A winding-group starts with top 5, then proceeds to bottom 8, top I3 and bottom I, to a front-end group-connector I2, from which the phase-A winding-group continues through top I, bottom 4, top 8, bottom I2, top 2, and bottom 5, to the star-point ter minal A* at the front end of the core.

The phase-A top coil-sides in Fig. 10 thus oc cupy slots corresponding tothe group of R25 adjacent vectors I, 5, 9, I3 and 2 of the slotstar, while the bottom coil-sides occupy slots corresponding to another, or dephased, group of R=5 adjacent vectors 4, 8, I2, I and 5 of the slot-star. The phase-displacement between these two groups of ve consecutive vectors is thus 30V, giving a chord-factor of because there are mR=15 vector-angles 0V in 180 electrical degrees.

In case of a chorded wave-winding in which the number, R, of slots, or Vectors, per phase, in each repeatable group, is an even number, and in which 111:1, y=2, and 'yi=y2=u, it is possible to partially string together the two dephased groups of R coil-sides which make up the Winding-group of any phase. Since R is even, T must be odd, since it must be prime thereto, and hence the pole-number p must be 2T, or a multiple of 2T.

This is illustrated in the vector-star of Fig. 1l, and the complete winding of Fig. 12, for a simple case in which the approximate number' of pole-pitches between adjacent vectors of the slotstar is lc=1, the number of poles in each repeatable group is T=5, the pole-number is p=l0, the phase-number is m=3, the number of slots per phase per repeatable group is R=8, the total number of slots in. each repeatable group is mR=24, and the total number of slots for the entire winding is s=mRp/ T :48. Equation 1 shows that the slot-difference between successive Vectors of the slot-star is uz, measured progressively. The slot-star is characterized, therefore, by vectors corresponding to the following slotnumbers, in the order named:

For phase-A, I, E, II, I6, 2I, 26, 3I, 38. For phase-B, 4I, 46, 3, 8, I3, I8, 23, 28. For phase-C, 33, 38, 43, 48, 5, III, I5, 2D.

I am illustrating, in Fig. l2, a ten-pole, LIIS-slot wave-winding in which the back and iront pitches are equal to one pole-pitch of mR/T=24/5 slots, plus one vector-angle 011:1 /T slot, or

Therefore, the total pitch is y=y1ly2=2u=l0- The winding is assumed to be a two-layer winding, and hence, as in Fig. 8, it `will have two windly connected winding-groups of each of the two repeatable groups, a part of the second phase-A winding-group of each repeatable group may be attached to either the beginning or the end of the rst phase-A winding-group of the same repeatable group, without a group-connector at that point.

Fig. 12 illustrates such a winding, in which there is a phase-.displacement of four vectorangles, or edv, between the two groups of R=8 consecutive vectors in the slot-star of Fig. 11, giving a chording-factor of The nrst winding-group of phase-A starts with the winding-terminal AI at the front end of the core, and it has its R=8 coil-sides alternately in the tops and bottoms of slots l, 6, il, It, 2l, 23, 3| and 36. The second winding-group of the same phase is displaced by four vectors of the slot-star, so that the second group of phase-A slots has the vector-numbers, 2|, 26, 3|, 36, Ill, dii, 3 and 8.

In Fig. 12, the last four slot-numbers of the second group follow right on after the vector for the 8th slot of the rst group. Thus, from the end of the iirst group, the winding continues right on, from the bottom of slot 35, previously mentioned, to the top of slot 4|, which is the 5th slot-vector-number in the second group of il vectors of the slot-star. The phase-A winding then continues, from top AI, to 'bottom 4%, top 3 and bottom 8, to a group-connector 13A at the front `of the core. This group-connector then makes connection to the bottom conductor in the 4th slot of the second phase-A winding-group in the other repeatable group of mR=24 slots, which is slot (36-24)=12, and the phase-A winding then follows backwardly through the rest of the numbers of the second group, (with 2li-slot dis placement), including the top conductor in slot l, bottom 2 and top 45, to a second phase-A winding-terminal A2 at the front end of the core.

The winding-direction in these four last-mentioned slots is backward because said slots are in the second winding-group, and are under poles of a polarity opposite to that of the correspondingly numbered slots of the rst winding-group, the polarity being opposite because each repeatable group spans an odd number of poles, T=5. Thus, if the first coil-sides of the coils are in Various phase-positions under north poles, at any given moment, the second coil-sides of the same coils should, of course, be in various phase-positions under south poles.

In like manner, the phase-B coil-side slotnumbers are found by adding 16 to the numbers just given for phase-A, while the phase-C numbers are found by adding 32 to the phase-A numers. Thus, a phase-B winding extends from a winding-terminal BI at the front of the core, to the top conductor bottom 22, and so on, to the top conductor I3, and thence to the second phase-B winding-terminal B2 at the front of the core. A phase-C winding extends from a winding-terminal CI at the front of the core, to the top conductor 33, and it ends with the top conductor 29, which is connected to the second phase- C winding-terminal C2.

The three windings thus far traced, for this machine, are shown in full in Fig. 12. 1t will be seen that every odd-numbered slot carries only its top conductor, and every even-numbered slot carries only its bottom conductor. There is obviously room for a second winding in each phase. If the two windings of each phase are to be connected in parallel with each other, they will have to be exactly in phase, and will have to have alternately bottom and top coil-sides, instead of top and bottom, occupying the same slots as the parallel-connected winding of the same phase. This will provide six more winding-terminals A3 A4, B3, B4, C3' and C4, all at the rear of the core, as shown in Fig. 12.

The foregoing illustrations have all involved forwardly creeping or progressive windings, in which the plus sign was used in Equation 1. It is quite possible, of course, for the minus sign to be used in this equation, in which case the slotdiiierence, u, is to be subtracted from the 'slotnumber of any vector to nd the slot-number of the following vector in the star.

Fig. 13 shows such a slot-star, for a three-phase winding having R/ T=7/fl slots per phase per repeatable group, 'for which Equation 1 shows that lc=1, and 11:5, added retrogressively. Thus, the slot-star has mR=21 vectors, numbered as follows:

For phase-A, I, I2, 1,2, I8, I3. For phase-B, 8, 3, I9, I4, 9, 4, 20. For phase-C, I5, Ill, 5, 2|, I6, 6.

Fig. 14 shows phase-A of a four-pole wavewinding having a slot-star as shown in Fig. 13, and having two parallel-connectable full-pitch winding-groups in each phase.

It will be understood that the foregoing ex amples are merely illustrative of my new winding-principleausing the vector-star, and the slotnumber sequences in the vector-star, to assist in laying out, and analyzing, balanced polyphase windings, particularly the diihcult case of fractional-slot multipolar windings which are exactly balanced.

My invention is particularly applicable to novel, balanced, fractional-slot wave-windings. in which the pole-pitch, expressed in slots, is mqzmR/T, where the least denominator, T, is greater than 2 and prime to the phase-number m. In threephase windings, this mee-.ns a least denominator 'l' greater than 3, which means a pole-number at least equal to 4.. if T is even, and a polenumber, at least equal to ZT-:HL if T is odd. Such balanced pclyphas'e multipolar wave-windings, with T greater than 2, have not been known heretofore.

An essential feature of my invention is the calculation of the slot-difference, u, between any two successive vectors VX and Vxi-l. of the slotstar; and the use of one mth of the slot-star vectors, or 60, in a three-phase winding, to determine the slot-numbers of the coil-sides of any given phase-group of the winding; or the use of either u or 2u to determine the total pitch y of a Wave-winding, according as u approximates two pole-pitches 2mR/ T, or one pole-pitch mR/ T, respectively.

I claim as my invention:

1. A multipolar electrica] apparatus having` a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said core having a number of slots per phase per pole that is represented by a fraction which, when reduced to its lowest terms, has a denominator greater than 2, said denominator representing the number of poles in a repeatable group of slots, and the numerator of said fraction representing the number of slots per phase in each 'repeatable group, the 180 slot-star of the voltagevectors of the voltages induced in the coil-sides lying in the slots of each repeatable group being divided into as many groups of consecutive vectors as there are phases, and each phase of the Winding in each repeatable group including one or more sub-groups composed of coils which follow each other around the core in the same order followed by the corresponding vectors in the portion of the slot-star assigned to said phase.

2. A multipolar eiectrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said core having a number of slots per phase per pole that is represented by a fraction which, when reduced to its lowest terms, has a denominator greater than 2, said denominator representing the number of poles in a repeatable group or slots, and the numerator of said fraction representing the number of slots per phase in each repeatable group, the 180 slot-star of the voltage-vectors of the voltages induced in the coilsides lying in the slots of each repeatable group being divided into as many groups of consecutive vectors as there are phases, and each phase of the winding in each repeatable group including one or more sub-groups composed of coil-sides which follow each other around the core in the same order followed by the corresponding vectors in the portion of the slot-star assigned to said phase.

3. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizlable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said Winding having a total pitch of y=(1ikmR)/T, if 16:2, and y:(2i2kmR)/T, if lc=l, where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to all of the integers lc, ym and R, each phase of the winding having one or other integral number of phase-groups, each phasegroup being composed of one or other integral number of coii-sides in each of R slots which are spaced u slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mlt slots therefrom, where u is a positive or negative integer equal to uzdilcml) T.

4. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally saced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coilsides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of y=(eiz7cmR) T, Where ek is an even number, ic is the smallest number that will make u a positive or negative integer in the expression u= l tlcmR)/T, m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to all of the integers 7c, m and R, each phase of the winding having one or other integral number of phase-groups, each phase-group being composed of one or other integral number of coil-sides in each of R slots which are spaced u slots apart, or mR or a multiple oi mR slots therefrom.

5. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having at least two coil-sides in each of said slots of the core, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of gl= 1i12mR /T, where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to all of the integers 2, m and R, the number of poles of the winding being 2T or a multiple of 16 2T, each phase of the windinghaving one or other integral number of phase-groups, each phase-group being composed of R coils having any desired coil-throw, said R coils having their rst coil-sides spaced y slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mR slots therefrom.

6. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of 11:(2i2mR) /T, where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, the coils of said winding having front and back pitches both equal to one-half of the total pitch y.

'7. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said Winding having a total pitch of y=(2i2mR) /T, where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, the Winding having 2mR coil-sides or a multiple thereof, each phase of the winding having a pair of serially connected phase-groups having any desired chording-actor therebetween, or any number of such pairs, each phase-group being composed of R coil-sides spaced y/2 slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mR slots therefrom, the coils of said winding having front and back pitches both equal to one-half of the total pitch y.

8. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a' magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of y=(2 +;2mR)/T, Where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R., each phase of the Winding having one or other integral number of phase-groups, each phase-group being composed of R coils having any desired coil-throw, said R coils having their first coilsides spaced y slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mR. slots therefrom.

9. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of y=(2i2mR) /T, where m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, R being an even number and T being an odd number, the number of poles or" the winding being 2T or a multiple of 2T, each phase of the winding having a pair of serially connected phase-groups out of phase .with each other, or any number of such pairs, the rst phase-group of each of said pairs being composed of R. coil-sides spaced y/2 slots apart, a portion of the second phase-group of each pair continuing from one end of the first phase-group of said pair, in one or more coilsides occupying slots continuing the aforesaid y/Z spacing, the remaining portion of said second phase-group starting with a coil-side spaced mR slots, or a multiple thereof, ill/2 slots from the slot of the second phase-group which adjoins the aforesaid end of the first phase-group, the remaining coil-sides of said second phase-group continuing on backwardly with a spacing of -y/ 2 between the slots of successive coil-sides.

10. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a 17 magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of where ek is an even number, 1c is the smallest number that will make u a positive or negative integer in the expression 1L=(likmR)/T, m iS the number of phases, and R/'I` is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, the coils of said Winding having front and back pitches both equal to one-half of the total pitch y,

11. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase Wave-Winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said winding having a total pitch of 11:(2izlcmR) /T, where zic is an even number, Ic is the smallest number that will make a a positive or negative integer in the expression u=(1i7cmR) /T, m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, the Winding having 2mR, coil-sides or a multiple thereof, each phase of the Winding having a pair of serially connected phase-groups having any desired chording-factor therebetween, or any number of such pairs, each phase-group being composed of R coil-sides spaced y/2 slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mR slots therefrom, the coils of said winding having front and back pitches both equal to one-half of the total pitch y.

12. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase Wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said Winding having a total pitch of y=(zizlcmR) T, where alc is an even number, lc is the smallest number that Will make u a positive or negative integer in the expression u=(1 1kmR) /T, m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both m and R, each phase of the Winding having one or other integral number of phase-groups, each phase-group being composed of R coils having any desired coil-throw, said R coils having their rst coil-sides spaced y slots apart, or mR or a multiple of mR slots therefrom.

13. A multipolar electrical apparatus having a magnetizable core having equally spaced slots, and a balanced polyphase Wave-winding having coil-sides lying in said slots, characterized by said Winding having a total pitch of y=(2ielcmR) T, Where 2k is an even number, lc is the smallest number that Will make u a positive or negative integer in the expression u=(1ikmR)/T, m is the number of phases, and R/T is the number of slots per phase per pole, T being greater than 2 and prime to both 'm and R, R being an even number and T being an odd number, the number of poles of the winding being 2T or a multiple of 2T, each phase of the Winding having a pair of serially connected phase-groups out of phase With each other, or any number of such pairs, the first phase-group of each of said pairs being composed of R coil-sides spaced y/2 slots apart, a portion of the second phase-group of each pair continuing from one end of the first phasegroup of said pair, in one or more coil-sides occupying slots continuing the aforesaid y/2 spacing, the remaining portion of said second phase-group starting with a coil-side spaced mR slots, or a multiple thereof, iy/Z slots from the slot of the second phase-group which adjoins the aforesaid end of the first phase-group, the remaining coilsides of said second phase-group continuing on backwardly with a spacing of -y/2 between the slots of successive coil-sides.

MICHAEL LIWSCHITZ. 

